Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Eckhart Tolle

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Barbara Deming

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Brian Tracy

Focus on your strengths.

Brian Tracy

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Jane Goodall

I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.

James E. Faust

In many ways, each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were. The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and, in a way, their challenges could be our challenges.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Benjamin Franklin

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Barbra Streisand

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

Barbra Streisand

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

Desiderius Erasmus

Eagles don't catch flies.

Demi Lovato

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Aristophanes

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Bruce Lee

Practice all movements slow and fast, soft and hard; the effectiveness of Jeet Kune-Do depends on split-second timing and reflexive action, which can be achieved only through repetitious practice.

Bruce Lee

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Bruce Lee

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Bruce Lee

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

Edward Young

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

Denis Waitley

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

Edwin Louis Cole

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Ayn Rand

Get the hell out of my way!

Ayn Rand

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Benjamin Britten

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Benjamin Bratt

My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.

Carl Sandburg

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

Coco Chanel

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Elizabeth I

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

B. C. Forbes

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself.

When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.